What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?

   A. Charles Lamb
   B. Jane Austen
   C. William Hazlitt
   D. Oliver Goldsmith

2. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the ?

   A. French Revolution
   B. Glorious Revolution of1688
   C. Reformation
   D. Oxford Movement

3. Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

   A. Engagement with the natural world
   B. Rationality
   C. Emotional restraint
   D. Political conservatism

4. Which of the following was NOT a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

   A. Celebration of the imagination
   B. Engagement with nature
   C. The use of symbolism
   D. The use of allegory

5. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

   A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
   B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
   C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
   D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems

6. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?

   A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
   B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
   C. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,
   D. All the above

7. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

   A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
   D. all of the above

8. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Ben Jonson
   D. George Herbert

9. Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?

   A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
   B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
   C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
   D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

10. Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?

    A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.
    B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.
    C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.
    D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.